One of O The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year . The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet Mary Oliver.. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan NPR’s Fresh Air. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural spiritual and artistic worlds .